‘Autonomy Convention’ and ‘Consulta’: Deliberative Democracy in Subnational Minority Contexts

Alber, Elisabeth; Röggla, Marc; Ohnewein, Vera

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“…Identity integration is a nation-statist standard of success, not a necessary prerequisite for liberaldemocratic governance. We do, however, expect that the attitude and relationships between the three official linguistic groups will continue to improve, and that over the long, multi-generational term, South Tyrol will shift from 'corporate' toward 'liberal' consociation (McCulloch 2014), and may someday not need formal power-sharing at all (see Röggla 2016, 2018).…”

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

Larin

Röggla

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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South Tyrol is an autonomous, predominantly German‐speaking province in Italy, and one of the most successful cases of power‐sharing in the world. Nevertheless, the Province recently conducted a participatory‐democratic process known as the ‘Autonomy Convention’ to debate and draft a proposal for revising the 1972 Autonomy Statute. It is the first such process with the stated intent of amending a power‐sharing arrangement, and our research questions are whether this represents a new type of consociational negotiation, and what made it possible. The answer to the first question is ‘no’, and the Convention is best seen as a ‘participatory‐ish consultation’ which had no formal power. But the problems that it faced, and the fact that it occurred at all, are evidence of consociational democracy's potential to transform conflicts. The Convention, we argue, is the result of ‘normal’, not ‘ethnic’ politics, and two generations of successful power‐sharing made that possible by desecuritising the relationship between South Tyrol's three official linguistic groups.

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“…A similar consultative process known as the ‘ Consulta ’ was conducted in Trentino after the Convention concluded. For information on the Consulta and its relationship with the Convention, see Alber et al ().…”

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2019

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A Consociational Compromise? Constitutional Evolution in Spain and Catalonia

Anderson

2020

Power-Sharing in Europe

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This chapter examines the prospects of a consociational compromise in Spain and Catalonia as a response to the protracted constitutional stalemate between the two governments. While Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s had a clear consociational tinge, it has since evolved toward the entrenchment of a majoritarian and mononational interpretation of the state, hostile to its plurinational reality and to minority nationalist aspirations in territories like Catalonia. Hitherto, no institutional resolution has been found to satisfy the demands of both sides. This chapter argues that consociational philosophy has much to offer to Spain and Catalonia. While a more consensual approach to politics is crucial to thawing the frosty relations between the pro-and anti-independence sides, the development of a fully-fledged consociational system has yet to gain much traction.

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Effects of social evolution on terminology policy in South Tyrol

Chiocchetti

2021

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This paper illustrates the challenges of terminology policy in the legal domain in South Tyrol, Italy, i.e. within a minority community whose language (German) is an official language in other countries. In this context terminology planning becomes necessary mainly in relation to legal and administrative concepts, due to the system-bound nature of legal language. The method applied in South Tyrol is micro-comparison with other German-speaking legal systems. Based on South Tyrol’s example, we show how changes in society have affected approaches, methods and tools for terminology planning and practical terminology work. South Tyrol’s autonomy model is often considered a best practice for the resolution of ethnic conflict. Its long-lasting experience in terminology planning may equally serve as a model for minority language communities that have only recently been granted extensive language rights.

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‘Autonomy Convention’ and ‘Consulta’: Deliberative Democracy in Subnational Minority Contexts

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‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

‘Participatory consociationalism? No, but South Tyrol's Autonomy Convention is evidence that power‐sharing can transform conflicts’

A Consociational Compromise? Constitutional Evolution in Spain and Catalonia

Effects of social evolution on terminology policy in South Tyrol

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